Faculty

Anna Dina L. Joaquin Professor and Acting Department Chair of Linguistics

Professor and Department Chair

  • Office: ST 816
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýanna.joaquin@csun.edu
  • Phone: 818-677-6319
  • Interests: first and second language acquisition, neurobiology of language, TESL pedagogy, language socialization, discourse analysis

Stephanie Hyeri Kim

  • Professor and Associate Chair
  • M.A. TESL Graduate Advisor
  • Office: ST 808
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýstephanie.kim@csun.edu
  • Phone: 818-677-0907
  • Interests: conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, TESL/TEFL pedagogy, qualitative methods

Professor

  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýrebecca.litke@csun.edu
  • Interests: ethnography and communication, qualitative methods, intercultural communication

Kenneth V. Luna Professor

Professor

  • Office: ST 806
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýkenneth.luna@csun.edu
  • Interests: phonetics, acoustics, laboratory phonology, intonation, prosodic typology, Sp_ToBI, Caribbean linguistics, Romance linguistics

David J. Medeiros

Professor


Laura Ruth-Hirrel Assistant Professor M.A. LING Graduate Advisor

Associate Professor
M.A. LING Graduate Advisor

  • Office: ST 814
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýlaura.hirrel@csun.edu
  • Phone: 818-677-5019
  • Interests: cognitive-functional approaches to the study of language meaning, co-speech gestures, construction grammar, and language documentation

Moira Saltzman

Assistant Professor

  • Office: ST 818
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýmoira.saltzman@csun.edu
  • Phone: 818-677-5025
  • Interests: Language contact and language change, sociophonetics, Koreanic languages, minoritized languages and language revitalization

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz

Professor

  • Office: JR 121B
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýana.sanchezmunoz@csun.edu
  • Interests: language variation and change, sociolinguistics, language contact, bilingualism, Spanish in the U.S.

Hyung-Jo Yoon Associate Professor

Associate Professor

  • Office: ST 810
  • ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýhyungjo.yoon@csun.edu
  • Phone: 818-677-3563
  • Interests: second language writing, task-based language teaching, corpus linguistics, and computational text analysis